6
January
2009
HANDLING AND INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
Technology
The possibility to intervene on work route configuration is the fundamental factor which determined automated carts diffusion.
Control. CASSIOLI's control system is capable of monitoring all information related to positioning and vehicles status, as well as requests forwarded by the manufacturing system. In this way, the system processes and determine in real-time the most suitable route to the current situation (vehicle scheduling and routing).
Double Navigation System. The ultra-decennial company's experience and competence in the sector of automated carts has showed that there is no single effective and valid guidance system for all industrial environments. In particular warehouse areas, such as narrow and long aisles, tunnels close to industrial ovens and, in general, outside the factory, a correct fixed reference triangulation required by laser technology is not attainable. Hence in these particular contexts, CASSIOLI's LGVs integrate self-driven carts technology with a double navigation system: Laser technology guidance and inductive guidance, based on the detection of fields generated by magnetic pellets embedded into the floor.
Wireless Technology. Our researchers always care to discover opportunities offered by new technologies: Every data exchange between any single cart and the main control system is done by means of Wi-Fi technology. In fact, the possible communication overload and electromagnetic interferences have always been a limit for traditional LGV systems, which were linked to the main system by means of radio frequency channels. On the contrary, by employing Wi-Fi technology, CASSIOLI's cart control system receives data from the main control system directly through an Ethernet network. As a result, the whole cart logic is not controlled by a PLC but instead by a PC, which thanks to its features, can autonomously control some functions related to traffic management. Switching from a centralized control system, typical in traditional PLC controlled carts, to a distributed control system, typical in the new CASSIOLI's PC controlled carts, improves computing and communication speed with the "grounded" PC, hence giving carts more reliability.
Integration. CASSIOLI's LGVs can be entirely integrated with any other handling device: Palletizers, robotized areas, end-of-line and automated warehouses. Carts supervisor modules can be interfaced to any upper-level corporate information system (SAP, department and so on).
Maintenance. The new system architecture of the new CASSIOLI's LGVs, by means of a remote internet connection, allows not only to diagnosticate the LGV vehicles status, but also to "debug" the embedded LGV software. An added safety to never interrupt the normal course of operations within the customer's factory.
Control. CASSIOLI's control system is capable of monitoring all information related to positioning and vehicles status, as well as requests forwarded by the manufacturing system. In this way, the system processes and determine in real-time the most suitable route to the current situation (vehicle scheduling and routing).
Double Navigation System. The ultra-decennial company's experience and competence in the sector of automated carts has showed that there is no single effective and valid guidance system for all industrial environments. In particular warehouse areas, such as narrow and long aisles, tunnels close to industrial ovens and, in general, outside the factory, a correct fixed reference triangulation required by laser technology is not attainable. Hence in these particular contexts, CASSIOLI's LGVs integrate self-driven carts technology with a double navigation system: Laser technology guidance and inductive guidance, based on the detection of fields generated by magnetic pellets embedded into the floor.
Wireless Technology. Our researchers always care to discover opportunities offered by new technologies: Every data exchange between any single cart and the main control system is done by means of Wi-Fi technology. In fact, the possible communication overload and electromagnetic interferences have always been a limit for traditional LGV systems, which were linked to the main system by means of radio frequency channels. On the contrary, by employing Wi-Fi technology, CASSIOLI's cart control system receives data from the main control system directly through an Ethernet network. As a result, the whole cart logic is not controlled by a PLC but instead by a PC, which thanks to its features, can autonomously control some functions related to traffic management. Switching from a centralized control system, typical in traditional PLC controlled carts, to a distributed control system, typical in the new CASSIOLI's PC controlled carts, improves computing and communication speed with the "grounded" PC, hence giving carts more reliability.
Integration. CASSIOLI's LGVs can be entirely integrated with any other handling device: Palletizers, robotized areas, end-of-line and automated warehouses. Carts supervisor modules can be interfaced to any upper-level corporate information system (SAP, department and so on).
Maintenance. The new system architecture of the new CASSIOLI's LGVs, by means of a remote internet connection, allows not only to diagnosticate the LGV vehicles status, but also to "debug" the embedded LGV software. An added safety to never interrupt the normal course of operations within the customer's factory.
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